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Leader partner
the Council of Sesto San Giovanni
Project partner
Texts and iconographic research
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Translation by
Laura Fabiola Castellani
Catherine Feller
Thanks to
Cover photo
carlonicolacasati
Photos by
Archivio del Comune di Sesto San Giovanni, Archivio del Lavoro, Archivio storico A.F.L. Falck, Fondazione ISEC,
Gieffesse-Gruppo Fotoamatori Sestesi, Parco Media Valle Lambro, Parco Nord Milano
carlonicolacasati, Andrea Colleoni, Gianluca Colonnese, Maria Contardi, Francesca Di Bisceglie, Vito Faretra, Magda Fiorin, Robert Frentoei,
Antonio Grassi, Raoul Iacometti, Chiara Lana, Laura Melzi, Cristina Meneguzzo, Patrizia Morandi, Marco Pirola, Alberto Ravanelli,
Giorgio Schiavon, Nadia Tadini, Giorgio Vonella, Barbara Zicolella
Map on page 4 -5 co-created with the Scegli Sesto! project, with the contribution of Fondazione Comunitaria Nord Milano and Fondazione
Cariplo. Thanks to Bloom di Mezzago, CGS Rondinella, NH Hotels, Grand Hotel Villa Torretta, Galleria Campari, Sesto Proloco,
Ristorante Il Maglio, Associazione Ventimila Leghe, Nuova Carrozzeria Sestese, AN.PO arti grafiche, Gli Amici della Biblioteca,
Confcommercio-Associazione Territoriale di Sesto San Giovanni
Comune di Sesto San Giovanni, Piazza della Resistenza 20, tel. 0224961, www.sestosg.net
Visit Sesto
A city needs to be read like a book, going through its
streets and squares, exploring its buildings and gardens.
It is a book written by several hands, from which time has
sometimes stolen some pages, though always busy tracing
new ones.
This is particularly true of Sesto, which possesses an
important history, whose roots are as evident as its gaps,
which we are filling up step by step. The missing pages
are being assigned to tales told by its inhabitants, history
research and the visitors’ imagination.
Because of its history, which made work a virtue and Sesto
a melting pot, and because of its modernity, that seizes
development opportunities even during times of crisis,
Sesto fully feels to be a Lombard town as also a part of the
international metropolitan horizon.
In order to tell you about us, who we are and were, we
gathered the splendor of restless, ever on the move places
and landscapes. This short presentation is an invitation for
you to discover all about us and enjoy what we are able
to offer.
You are welcome in this city, our beloved city.
Monica Chittò
The Mayor of Sesto San Giovanni
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1 Fondazione ISEC
PHOTO: archivio comunale
2 Archivio del Lavoro
Villa Mylius in Largo
Lamarmora is a venue
for several events
organized by
Fondazione ISEC.
The OMEC – the
Machine Shop Division
of the Falck Unione
Department.
Movement of a Breda
Locomotive. About
50,000 photos of the
Breda historical archive
are stored at
Fondazione ISEC.
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Imagine a milestone located six miles away
from the heart of Mediolanum – it marks
the venue of a Roman campsite where the
horses were changed to carry on with the
journey. It is just the beginning. Come round
there in the next centuries and you will see
that this core has begun to develop. It has
built its first garrisons, half way between
farmsteads and fortified outposts to
safeguard its working land, one of the
richest soils in Europe.
Now, let’s take a leap forward in time,
imagine that this community stops being
besieged and aspires to be appreciated. Its
dwellings turn into leisure mansions for the
Milan nobility, but keeping an eye on what
richness really means. In Sesto the mansions
get frescoed, but farming goes on together
with the starting of the spinning mills. And
so far, it is a story shared among several other
villages around Milan.
Now, however, look at this village in the
new entrepreneurs’ shoes, in the early 20th
century. There are bargain lands, water, the
second railway line in Italy crossing Sesto
from Milan to Monza, direction Gottardo
and Europe beyond. Sesto is on the electric
line lighting up Milan. The adjoining Milan is
at hand, a great market, whose manpower
is eager to get down to work. It is the ideal
place to do things in style.
After a handful of years you may not
recognize this village: it was besieged by
a revolution, and its countryside has been
turned into factories. The installed factories
were soon to be known all over the world:
Breda, Marelli, Falck, Campari, and also
many minor ones, but all lively and fastgrowing. The city gets crowded with blue
collared struggling troops who develop an
awareness and understanding of their job,
who stand up against the abuses of the
system, who fight for all their rights.
Imagine now a vast crisis coming down like
lephant memory
a curtain on that scenario. It is Sesto again,
dismantling, forced to take off its blue collar
and start to roll up its sleeves. This is what
we are doing now, every day – reinventing
ourselves and opening new doors.
The inside of the
Archivio del Lavoro.
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Fondazione Isec, Largo Lamarmora 17, tel. +39 0222476745,
archivio@fondazioneisec.it, www.fondazioneisec.it.
Open from Monday to Thursday 9.30-12.30
and 14-17.30, on Fridays 9.30-12.30.
Archivio del Lavoro, Via Breda 56, tel. +39 0255025931,
archivio@archiviolavoro.it, www.archiviolavoro.it.
Open Mondays and Fridays by appointment,
Wednesday 9.30-13 e 14.30-17.30, Thursday 14-17.30.
PHOTO: fondazione isec
PHOTO: archivio storico a.f.l. falck
PHOTO: nadia tadini
If you are interested in Sesto’s history and
also its recent past there are two landmarks
you can seek out in the city.
Fondazione ISEC (1) – Contemporary
History Institute – collects archive files
about the great history topics of the 20th
century: work, enterprise, social and political
history, Resistance movement, thanks to the
documentation from factories such as Marelli
and Breda, with their correspondence,
technical drawings, employee registers.
Documents, books, photographs, posters,
employment contracts, magazines, factory
newspapers, medals, badges, interviews, films:
all this has been collected and stored and can
be consulted in the Archivio del Lavoro (2),
dedicated to the study of papers dealing
with the workers’ movement and society in
the second postwar period.
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Former Breda Area a
3 Spazio MIL
4 Breda Trip Hammer
5 Archivio Giovanni Sacchi
6Carroponte
7 830 Breda Locomotive
8 Cart with Falck Ingot
Moulds
9 Porta Breda
10 Breda Stadium
11 Models Tower
12 Locomotive Repair Shed
13 Housing for Breda Workers
An overhead crane,
a Breda locomotive,
ingot moulds, and a
trip hammer are the
living echoes of Sesto’s
factories.
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PHOTO: giorgio vonella
14 Houses for Breda Workers
Let our exploration begin from the former
Breda area, the first area in Sesto to host a
large factory and the first to resurge after
its shutdown. We are near the railway, the
same track that pushed many entrepreneurs
to settle down in Sesto in the early 20th
century. Among them, Ernesto Breda, a true
pioneer, who started up an outstanding
metalwork production. Locomotive and
Electromagnetic Unit, Railway Unit, Heating
and Hammering Forge Unit, Iron and Steel
Unit, Aeronautical Unit: Breda’s units, with
their specific names and productions
through the years, covered a wide territory
between Sesto and Milan, benefiting from
huge government commissions. After
various incidents, with moments of deep
crisis, projects of machinery rationalization
and workforce restructuring, in the Eighties
the Breda holding company sold factories
and machinery and in 1994 Breda’s story
came to an end.
After squaring with the end of a world,
this part of the city conquered a new role,
keeping alive its calling for manufacture.
Today, in approximately 50,000 square
meters of a public green area, Spazio
MIL (3) stands out, the pivotal point and
great hive of ideas and of cultural events:
exhibitions, performances, workshops,
conventions. Here design, art, theater and
music stand side by side.
The masonry building, which traces the
volume of the original Breda Spare Parts
Warehouse, has been completed with a
modern, adaptable and light structure.
Inside the building, a huge Breda Trip
Hammer (4) is on show, built in the Forgery
during the Thirties and in use until the
Eighties. It is a steam trip hammer, 5 meters
high, with a 1,000 kg mallet, and has a total
weight of approximately 15 tons.
In 2009, inside Spazio MIL, the Archivio
Giovanni Sacchi (4) was opened to the
changing city
actual museum in the open air starting
with the Carroponte (5), an overhead
crane and an impressive monument
of industrial archaeology. This structure
is a symbol of the rebirth of the city.
The area was used as a scrap yard for
the Breda Iron and Steel Plant and
the overhead crane, built in the early 20th
century by the same division, fuelled
the furnaces of the unit.
Spazio MIL and the
Giovanni Sacchi Archive
organize many cultural
events, guided tours and
workshops for all ages.
Spazio MIL, Via Granelli 1, tel. +39 022496431, tel. +39 0236682271,
info@spaziomil.org, www.spaziomil.org, www.spaziomil.it. 7
Archivio Giovanni Sacchi, Via Granelli 1, tel. +39 0236682271,
info@archiviosacchi.it. Free guided tours by appointment.
Both open from Tuesday to Friday 10-18, on Saturdays and
Sundays for special events. 7
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
PHOTO: giorgio vonella
PHOTO: barbara zicolella
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PHOTO: robert frentoei
public, and it can be visited on free guided
tours. Here the model maker Giovanni
Sacchi’s laboratory got set up again. It used
to be an outstanding place attended by
many internationally renowned designers.
When you enter the Archive, you feel at
home. His equipment is on view: carefully
assembled tools, spick-and-span tables,
machinery looking as if it had only just
stopped working. Wooden models,
prototypes, and products are on show
too. The products themselves make you
feel at home: every day objects on hand
such as in most houses. Their look is familiar,
but never boring, you can recognize them
at a glance, since they are design objects:
their shape stays in everybody’s mind.
Outside Spazio MIL there stands an
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PHOTO: carlonicolacasati
During the summer,
nightlife at Carroponte
is a very popular spot
for the metropolitan
public.
The Breda Models Tower
is visible where the
entrance to the old
plant stood.
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The overhead crane is made up of two lines
of columns and girders which sustained
seven gantry cranes. It measures about
200 x 60 meters and is 20 meters high.
Metal scraps reached the factory by railway
wagons. The cranes unloaded and steered
them towards the foundry. When restored
the complex was turned into a summer
arena for performances and outdoor events
– the first concert was held in September
2006. Since then the Carroponte is the place
to be to listen to live music on a summer
night, or go for a drink or dinner with friends.
It can be visited any time, but is particularly
impressive at night since it is all lit up in red.
A 830 Breda Locomotive (7), renovated
by Breda’s former workers, a railway Cart with
Carroponte, Via Granelli 1.
Summer season events planning:
www.carroponte.org, info@carroponte.org,
info line +39 3923244674. 7
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Falck Ingot Moulds (8) and a weathering
steel wall with references to the history of
Sesto are placed in the perimeter. The complex
is included in the project of Sesto San Giovanni
for the UNESCO application.
Leaving the Carroponte behind you, you will
cross Michele Festa’s majestic work of art: the
Porta Breda (9) (Breda Gate). In front of you,
the admirable Villa Torretta [p. 22], today a
luxury hotel. Not far from here is the Breda
Stadium (10), the factory’s leisure facility
renewed on the occasion of the 1990 World
Football Championships and still in use.
If you are fond both of sport and history,
visit the Parco Nord Milano [p. 26] and the
Breda Bunker [p. 27]. Whereas, if you want
to go back to the city, head towards the
railway: you will be staggered by the tour
around the Breda area.
The Models Tower (11) dates back to 1947.
Cylindrical and massive, it is 31 meters high
and divided into 10 levels above ground
Built next to the production units, they were
originally six buildings. In the Thirties also a
company shop and a workers’ recreational
club were added. Today only three buildings
survive. On the other side of the railway
are the Houses for Breda Workers (14),
created between 1920 and 1925 and
unfortunately poorly preserved. They are
nine little houses for foremen and office
workers, designed by the same architect,
each fitted with independent access, garden
and decorated façade.
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The Breda area is
a place where children
have fun and discover
the past.
The Housing for Breda
workers is still now
inhabited.
Sesto San Giovanni per l’UNESCO, Piazza della Resistenza 20,
tel. +39 022496309-386, from Monday to Thursday 9.30-17, Friday
9.30-13, sestoperlunesco@sestosg.net, www.sestoperlunesco.it.
Guided tours and bike strolls for groups.
PHOTO: giorgio vonella
PHOTO: archivio comunale
PHOTO: marisa contardi
PHOTO: gianluca colonnese
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
plus a basement. A central hoist used to
transfer the Breda models that were kept
inside. The Tower, a symbol of post-war
recovery, is still an important landmark today
in the city’s landscape. Almost at its feet, the
Locomotive Repair Shed (12), part of the
original entrance to the plant, is the oldest
building in the Breda complex. Its 125 meter
long lateral walls are framed by arcades,
its red-brick walls and large windows
make it one of the very best examples
of industrial architecture in Sesto. Both
buildings are visible from outside only. Here
the industrial era generated an industrial
and social organization, whose traces
remain in Giovanni Broglio’s Housing for
Breda Workers (13), designed in 1910 to
guarantee decent housing for the workers.
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Galleria Campari ma
PHOTO: magda fiorn
15 Galleria Campari
Galleria Campari
inside its historical
venue.
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The Campari factory opened in Sesto in
1904. Varied alcoholic beverages were
produced, such as Campari, and Cordial
Campari. The historical building was
designed by the architect Luigi Perrone
in Art Nouveau – Liberty style, employing
bricks and ceramic decorations for the walls.
Reinforced concrete, a novelty for that time,
was used to support structures and the inner
halls. After moving the production plant
to Novi Ligure, the whole space has been
redesigned and upgraded. The architect
Mario Botta kept the historical façade of
the building, placing it in the new complex,
which now is the managerial district of the
group. The restoration came to an end in
2010 together with the works pertaining to
the park, attended by the architect Giancarlo
Marzorati. The historical building is included
in the project of Sesto San Giovanni for the
UNESCO application.
The factory owned by Gaspare Campari, and
developed by his son Davide, has always
been managed with a sense for art and
culture, involving great artists in advertising
campaigns, such as Marcello Dudovich,
Leonetto Cappiello, Fortunato Depero, Franz
Marangolo, Bruno Munari, Guido Crepax,
Ugo Nespolo.
Galleria Campari (15) is dedicated to
the history and evolution of the brand, a
multimedia interactive museum, open to
Galleria Campari, Viale Gramsci 161, tel. +39 0262251, galleria@campari.com, www.campari.com.
Free guided tours in Italian on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 14, 15.30, 17. Only for groups of at least 15 people
and upon reservation, guided tours at 10 and 11.30 am. Open on first Saturdays every month (save festivity)
with tours at 10, 11.30, 14, 15.30, 17. Guided tours in English or other languages to be arranged before. 7
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gic!
the-art even when in period style. A store
In the Campari
and a bookshop complete the museum. In
Lobby a reference to
addition to the permanent exhibition, the
the historical bottle
Davide Campari Space hosts themed events.
designed
by Fortunato
Leaving behind the new complex, the
Depero,
a
still modern
Campari green area, today partly public, is
design
item, which
an ideal place for a relaxing break. Not to
you can find in
be missed is the street artists’ works of art,
the museum.
that reinterpreted Campari’s mission on the
fencing wall of the garden.
The wall Redvolution
From the park, which preserves its original
2.0: Campari’s presence
structure and many pristine species, you
in Sesto for 110 years
can see Villa Campari [p. 22], turned into a
told by 11 street artists
restaurant in 2013, and Campari Academy,
who interpret 11 famous
dedicated to education. Here, in agreement
posters of the brand
with the long Campari tradition, food,
Campari on a
design, and a drinking philosophy meet and
110 metres-long wall.
melt together.
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
PHOTO: barbara zicolella
PHOTO: magda fiorn
PHOTO: gianluca colonnese
the public with guided tours. The exhibition
room is organized on two floors. The first
one hosts wonderful figurative works of
art: original posters from the Belle Époque,
manifestos and advertising flyers from
the Thirties to the Seventies, commercials
signed by film directors such as Federico
Fellini and Singh Tarsem, which together
with the commercial development of
products reveal the evolution of social
customs. The video animations projected
on the walls interact with the period-style
materials and a large multimedia board
allows for a full immersion in a wide
corporate artistic heritage. The upper floor
displays furnishings and it is the realm
of design at disposal of marketing and
business communication, which is state-of-
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Former Falck Areas ti
16 Vittoria A Porter’s Lodge
17 Wire and Rope Factory
18Bliss
19 T3 Pagoda
20 Smoke Purifier
21 Slab Shed
22OMEC
23 Unione Water Tower
24 Thermal Power Station
25 Unione Pompei Tanks
26VAO
27 Esedra Porter’s Lodge
PHOTO: chiara lana
28 Inspection and Weigh Station
29 Concordia Pompei Tanks
30T5
31 Concordia Water Tower
The Omec, an elegant
example of industrial
architecture with
longitudinal structure.
A metal lattice
pillar and the barrel
vaults of the Bliss.
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Founded by Giorgio Enrico Falck in 1906,
the Acciaierie e Ferriere Lombarde Falck
soon became the greatest private iron and
steel factory in Italy, with the settlement of
its departments Vittoria, Unione, Concordia
and Vulcano in Sesto. The steel produced
originated from scrap recycling. With
the iron and steel industry crisis in the
Seventies, a gradual decrease in activity and
employment took place, until the definitive
shutdown of the plants in the mid Nineties.
Today the former Falck areas, which can be
visited only by permission of the current
owner Milanosesto S.p.a. and with a guided
tour, offer a unique glimpse into industrial
archaeology and are at the centre of a great
transformation. As a matter of fact, they are
involved in the Renzo Piano’s project, which
conserves and restores buildings symbolizing
the Sesto’s past, projecting them into a city
of the future, with the challenge of the City
of Health and Research. The plan involves the
relocation of two important hospitals (Istituto
Neurologico Besta and Istituto dei Tumori)
to a part of the areas, joined together into a
large public health structure.
Let’s dive into an exploration of the areas
from the Vittoria A Porter’s Lodge (16)
along Viale Italia – the first building tied to
Falck’s history, preserving perfectly its original
insignia “Falck Iron and Steel Factories”.
Originally part of the Barelli factory, founded
in 1913, it was taken over by Falck in 1920.
The building stands out for its architectural
features: a V-shaped plan, two-level structure,
entrance frontage with truncated gable and
pinnacles. Next to it, the Wire and Rope
Factory (17) was added in the Thirties. It
dealt in the production of steel wires and
cables. The building, made up of three
bright spans, is 180 meters long, and runs
along Viale Italia. As we pass further on, we
discover the Bliss (18). It was so named
after the cold rolling mills of the USA factory
me machine
they are not open to the public till the
end of the redevelopment. Some of them
however, due to their size and location, can
be seen from outside, over the old factory
wall. Among the most majestic ones, the T3
Pagoda (19) stands out because of its roof
shaped like gigantic jaws and its colossal
size: it is 10,000 square meters wide and 30
meters high. It housed an electric furnace
and a continuous casting plant for the
production of slabs. Next to it, the Smoke
Purifier (20) still survives. The last casting in
the T3 – in fact, the last one in Sesto’s steel
industry – dates back to December 1995.
Orthogonal to the T3, lies the Slab Shed (21),
a warehouse for slab manufactured in the
Steel Plant and for sheet steel rolls produced
in the nearby Rolling Mill Unit.
The Vittoria A
Porter’s Lodge.
The T3 Pagoda
with its claw-shaped
cover stands out inside
the former
Falck Unione.
The Slab Shed
skeleton.
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
PHOTO: chiara lana
PHOTO: laura melzi
PHOTO: alberto ravanelli
Bliss, once installed in the shed where tape
rolls, produced by Unione, were wrought
to reach a very thin gauge. Built around
mid-20th century, the Bliss stretches over a
surface area of 5,000 square meters divided
into three bays. It is an interesting example
of good industrial architecture, mainly on
account of the large barrel vaults and metal
lattice pillars with interlaced curved bars
generating an ornamental motif.
Walking further north along Viale Italia, you
will find yourself in the heart of the former
Falck areas: the Unione westwards and the
Concordia eastwards. The Unione, the first
Falck steel plant started in 1906, is now a
reclaim target, and it will host the City of
Health buildings. The industrial archaeology
monuments will be all preserved, though
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PHOTO: vito faretra
The majestic T5, which
housed the Concordia
Steelworks.
The Esedra Porter’s
Lodge accessing the
former Falck Concordia.
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Today only its imposing skeleton remains:
a wide, long nave with a structure made of
metal beams and pillars.
Another wonderful example of an industrial
longitudinal building is the OMEC (22)
Officine Meccaniche E Costruzioni (Machine
Shop) stretching for a length of 280 meters,
built in the early 20th century, with rows of
large windows and a shed-like roof. OMEC
workers were highly skilled: this is where
machineries for Falck plants and several
foundry castings were developed. On its
façade, along with the insignia, there is a
commemorative stone to remember the
Falck workers who lost their lives in the
Resistance or were deported victims of
Nazi-fascists. There are some other buildings
nearby: the Unione Water Tower (23), a
water tank equalizing pressure in plants;
the Thermal Power Station (24), built
in 1930 and later used for offices; and the
Unione Pompei Tanks (25), so called due
to their great evocative strength, a part of
the endless underground system which
interconnected one plant with another.
Along via Mazzini is the VAO (26) Vecchio
Albergo Operaio (Falck workers’ hostel) for
those workers who could only go home on
Saturdays or even only once a month. The
building, now a municipal property outside
the brownfield, can be seen from outside.
In the former Concordia area there’s a
remarkable gathering of buildings, starting
from the Esedra Porter’s Lodge (27),
which gives way to the disused area. The
Twenties’ structure stands out along viale
Italia because of its trumpet-shaped layout,
the precious facades, framed windows
with ornamental motif and corner pilasters.
This is where railway wagons entered the
plant, transporting steel products, both
incandescent and cold, coming from
Unione and going ahead to the Concordia
Inspection and Weigh Station (28), the
in the world. Metal sheets were produced,
which were the Concordia’s prime quality
products, and large pipes. The Concordia
Water Tower (31), with its insignia reading
“Lombard Falck Iron and Steel Factories”, can
be easily seen from Viale Italia too.
To have a complete panorama of the former
Falck areas, a stroll on the Falck Hills [p. 26].
of the Parco Media Valle Lambro [p. 26]
is recommended.
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Former Falck workers
tell visitors
their own experience
during a bike stroll.
The Concordia
Water Tower.
Sesto San Giovanni per l’UNESCO, in partnership with the
property Milanosesto s.p.a., arranges periodic guided tours for
groups by bike, bus, and on foot.
Info at: www.sestoperlunesco.it, sestoperlunesco@sestosg.net,
tel. +39 022496309-386, from Monday to Thursday 9.30-17,
Friday 9.30-13.
PHOTO: vito faretra
PHOTO: francesca di bisceglie
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
only surviving station for the checking of
goods in transit. Inside this brownfield site
the Concordia Pompei Tanks (29) take
their place, foundations for industrial plants,
a spider-web network of underground
passages. The Tanks are an excellent
observation point for the T5 (30), which
springs up like a majestic cathedral. Its five
bays cover a 28,500 square meters area and
its South-West façade is 49 meters high, right
as the Cathedral of Milan. This shed was the
core of the Concordia Steel Plant, opened
in 1965 with two electric furnaces with a
capacity of 120 tons, substituted with a
Tagliaferri brand furnace in 1980: the T5. With
the introduction of continuous casting this is
where slabs were produced up to a section
of 2100x300 mm, at that time, the biggest
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MAGE good luck with
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
32MAGE
The MAGE, brought to
life by the manufacture
of artisans.
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On the borders of the disused area, near
the Esedra Porter’s Lodge [p. 16], is the
MAGE (32), once part of the Concordia
factory, now a restored building belonging
to the Council. In the Thirties it was the
Nuts and Bolts Unit of Falck and about three
hundred women produced small metal
parts, working on semi-automated machines
in stock. Here – from a unit characterized
by a large female workforce, unusual for the
Falck plants – the first spontaneous strikes
against the fascist regime started on the
23rd March 1943, spreading to the other
factories in Sesto and Milan.
In the Fifties the production organization
was modified and automated, lowering the
workforce to approximately 200 workers. In
the Sixties the MAGE was converted into a
general warehouse (Magazzini Generali, as
the acronym indicates) for Falck Concordia.
The building, which is included in the
Sesto San Giovanni project for UNESCO
application, is a well-preserved example
of an industrial structure with designed
reinforced concrete framework. It has two
levels, basement and mezzanine, and the
inner space is marked by regularly spaced
pillars and lowered beams. The raised floor
is naturally lit thanks to skylights and large
openings on three sides, with green metal
window frames. The roof is shed-shaped in
the central section.
MAGE, Viale Italia 548.
Sesto San Giovanni per l’UNESCO arranges periodic tours in partnership
with businesses operating inside MAGE. Info at: sestoperlunesco@sestosg.net, www.sestoperlunesco.it,
tel. +39 0236574329, or +39 022496309-386, from Monday to Thursday 9.30-17, Friday 9.30-13. 7
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your work!
Young
entrepreneurs’ ateliers.
The shed roof
of the MAGE building.
PHOTO: alberto ravanelli
PHOTO: barbara zicolella
enterprises working inside it. The space is
colorful and evocative. It is worth a visit
if you are interested in state-of-the-art
design and installations that mix creativity
and sustainability, manufacturing and new
technologies.
In the mezzanine of the building courses
are held for restaurant operators from the
Achille Grandi school (AFOL) during the
week. The students are aspiring cooks,
bartenders, waiters and waitresses. The
yard is shared with the mechanics and
information technology students, who are in
the opposite building, once the Concordia
workers’ entrance.
The Falck brand sign is still visible on the
outer façade of the building overlooking
Viale Italia.
PHOTO: barbara zicolella
After its restoration the building has been
used for events organized by the Council
and in 2010 it was re-opened thanks to
the Made in MAGE project of temporary
reuse in collaboration with the university
Politecnico di Milano. Today Mage has
become a co-working space and its raised
floor houses offices and workshops of
young entrepreneurs, artisans and artists.
Its temporary reuse joins together new
productions and the enhancement of
the former industrial local patrimony, so
that Sesto can be up to the avant-garde
European experiments about the reuse of
empty spaces left over by the shutdown
of big factories. The MAGE can be visited,
and sometimes it is open to the public
for events and workshops set up by the
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Workers’ Villages and tr
33 Villaggio Attilio Franco
34 Villaggio Falck
35 Church of San Giorgio
alle Ferriere
36 Montessori Elementary School
37 Montessori Children’s
House
38 Vulcano Porter’s Lodge
39 Ex Sondel Station
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
40 Villaggio Diaz
The Villaggio Falck
dwellings with their
gardens.
The Ex Sondel Station,
now Edison.
The Villaggio Falck
former Elementary
School.
Next to the factories, several residential
dwellings rose up, requested by the
entrepreneurs themselves, so as to meet
the workers’ needs. First of all, the Villaggio
Attilio Franco (33) in 1908: four buildings
for blue-collar workers and one for whitecollar workers for the nearby Attilio Franco
Foundry, later taken over by Falck Vulcano.
The residential complex is the original core
around which the Villaggio Falck (34)
was to be developed in the Twenties,
secluded from the town centre, but in the
middle of Unione, Concordia and Vulcano
plants. The first dwellings had gardens in
the front, shared clothes washing facilities,
and kitchen gardens at the rear, which
Sesto San Giovanni per l’UNESCO arranges
periodical tours around the Villages.
Info: www.sestoperlunesco.it, sestoperlunesco@sestosg.net,
tel. +39 022496309-386, from Monday to Thursday 9.30-17,
Friday 9.30-13. The Villaggio Falck can be visited autonomously.
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enabled the family to improve their diets
and supplement their income. In the
Thirties the Village was extended eastwards
and provided with the Church of San
Giorgio alle Ferriere (35), the Montessori
Elementary School (36) – today an office
venue – and the Montessori Children’s
House (37) – an avant-garde company
nursery school where the Montessori
teaching method was applied, with spaces
reserved for practical activities, music rooms,
a garden and a farm. The Church is in simple
style, emphasized by the choice of materials:
brick walls and concrete. Its main façade is
borrowed from antiquity. Some glass walls
house metalworker figures, a clear reference
to the Falck production working units.
Between 1946 and 1947 new dwellings were
added to the Village and the last blocks were
built in 1955. During the Second World War
the Village became an important reference
point for the Resistance movement fighting
aces from the Resistance
of the great Falck properties too, along via
General Cantore, considered as an inner path
of the complex. The village, designed by
Giovanni Broglio in 1939, was inspired by the
English garden suburbs, both functional and
comfortable. It is a triangular lot including
twelve residential blocks. 70% of the area
is designated as a private green area, with
gardens and vegetables that once used to
be necessary for the families’ sustenance.
Both the Ex Sondel Station and the Villages
are included in the Sesto San Giovanni
project for UNESCO.
The dwellers tell visitors
their life experience
during a tour in the
Villaggio Falck.
The San Giorgio alle
Ferriere Church porch.
The Villaggio Diaz
dwellings.
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PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
PHOTO: giorgio schiavon
PHOTO: alberto ravanelli
PHOTO: marco pirola
Ex Sondel Station, now the Edison Thermoelectric Co-production
Station, Viale Italia 590. 7
Info about guided tours for groups and classes at:
tel. +39 0262228159, alberto.adami@edison.it
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
Nazi-fascism. In August 1944 two workers
were shot dead in front of the Circolo San
Giorgio, originally named Tripoli, and their
bodies were left on view as a warning. On the
borders of the Village, along via Trento the
façade of the Vulcano Porter’s Lodge (38)
survives. The Ex Sondel Station (39) built in
1916 and enlarged in 1924, overlooks Viale
Italia. The station is well preserved and a
fine example of civic architecture included
in a production complex. This electricity
receving plant redistributed electricity
from the hydro-electric plants in Boffetto,
Valtellina and Piateda, Val Venina to Falck
plants. Today it belongs to Edison and serves
as a distance-heating station for the town.
The Falck Garden estate, later called
Villaggio Diaz (40), was located in the heart
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Historical Mansions
41 Villa Torretta
42 Villa Campari
43 Villa Zorn
44 Villa Mylius
45 Villa Visconti D’Aragona
46 Villa Puricelli Guerra
PHOTO: alberto ravanelli
47 Villa Pelucca
Villa Torretta, now
the Grand Hotel
Villa Torretta.
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Urban oases worth noticing are the Sesto
mansions. They have a peculiar history
that intertwines with the history of local
enterprises and big factories. We’ll describe
some of them.
A fortified outpost of the Bicocca Castle, in
the 17th century Villa Torretta (41) was
turned into an aristocratic country residence.
Step by step the oratorio of Saint Margherita
and dwellings for farmers and artisans
were added. In the early 20th century
Breda acquired the already run-down villa,
employing the farm workers and using
the building as a dormitory. In 1933 a fire
deteriorated it. Today the Villa is the property
of Parco Nord Milano [p. 26]. Perfectly
restored, it has been turned into a hotel.
A 19th century residence once known
as Casa Alta, Villa Campari (42) was the
representative seat of the Campari factory.
Today, after Giancarlo Marzorati’s restyling, it
houses a restaurant. The garden has become
a public park, retaining the paths and many
secular trees of the original structure.
Built by the Marzorati family in the early
19th century, in 1870 Villa Zorn (43)
became the seat of the Austrian Zorn family,
who lived in Milan and enriched the park
with precious plants. In 1947 the building
became a Municipal property. Today it hosts
the Civic School of Art, the ANPI (National
Association of Italian Partisans), a restaurant
with a summer outdoor bar. The park, which
is public today, keeps some traces of the
original romantic structure and is part of the
historical gardens network ReGiS.
Villa Mylius (44) appears on the maps of
the land register as early as 1732. In 1804
it was named after its owner. A patron
and entrepreneur, Enrico Mylius used it
to manage his land properties. He had its
walls painted, its park widened and restyled
according to the romantic taste. In the early
20th century the Villa became the seat of
urban oases
PHOTO: patrizia morandi
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
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External gardens
of Villa Puricelli
Guerra.
Frescoes in Villa
Visconti D’Aragona.
A visit to the restored
Villa Mylius.
Villa Pelucca
ceilings.
PHOTO: archivio comunale
Nearly a century later in 1812 it became the
property of the Puricelli Guerra family, who
stood out for their entrepreneurial skills,
setting up a spinning mill in the courtyard.
In 1913 Ercole Marelli acquired the Villa
using it as housing for his foremen, with a
recreational club and a summer-camp. In
1970 the Villa became a Municipal property.
Villa Pelucca (47) was named after the
family who lived there at the end of 12th
century, using it as a farming estate. In
1524 Bernardino Luini frescoed the hall.
The frescoes, today displayed in Brera, are
inspired by the Exodus book. Next to the
Villa there is a chapel with well preserved
frescoes. The Villa passed on to the Council in
1927 and was later acquired by the Pelucca
Foundation.
PHOTO: archivio comunale
the Council. Today only the central body
remains, remarkably restored. The park,
with its botanical garden, is included in the
ReGis network.
The earliest information of Villa Visconti
D’Aragona (45) dates back to 1532. In
1654 the building became the property of
Parravicini family, who filled its gallery with
frescoes illustrating Liberalism, Wisdom,
Wealth and Fortitude. Later the Villa passed
to Visconti d’Aragona, who donated it to the
De Ponti family. The building was divided
into a spinning mill room, a residence
and an area for renting. In 1964 the Council
acquired the Villa, which today houses the
Central Library.
Villa Puricelli Guerra (46) appears for the
first time in the land register maps in 1721.
Villa Torretta, Via Milanese 3. Guided tours on one Sunday a
month. Other schedules to be arranged with Grand Hotel Villa
Torretta, tel. +39 02241121, info@villatorretta.it,
or Circolo Villa Torretta, tel. +39 02241127800 7
Villa Mylius, Largo Lamarmora 17. Guided tours info at:
Fondazione ISEC, tel. +39 0222476745, info@fondazioneisec.it
www.fondazioneisec.it 7
Villa Visconti D’Aragona, Via Dante 6, Villa Zorn, Via Cesare da
Sesto 113, Villa Puricelli Guerra, Via Puricelli Guerra 24. Info at:
tel. +39 0236574345-42-24, biblioteca.sestocentrale@csbno.net,
Monday 15-19, Saturday 9.30-18, from Tuesday to Friday 9.30-19
Villa Pelucca, Via Campanella 8/10.
Info and visits: Fondazione La Pelucca Onlus, tel. +39 022483240,
info@fondazionelapelucca.org 7
Guided tours in English or other languages have to be arranged.
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Off the Beaten Track
48 Università degli Studi
49 Mariani Brickworks
50 Cascina Gatti
51 Salvi Muller
Warehouse
52 Galli Breda School
53 Savoia College,
Monti Glassworks
54 San Clemente Recreational Club
55 Civic Aqueduct
PHOTO: archivio comunale
56 Saint Nicolao
The renovated
University area.
The charming and
massive Mariani
Brickworks.
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And now we come to a series of sites that
we would like to point out. They are worth a
closer look for different reasons.
In the middle of the former Marelli area is a
completely renovated section of the town,
housing offices and companies. Here today,
in the Indro Montanelli Square, is the new
department of the Università degli Studi
(48), with the faculty of Science of Cultural
and Linguistic Mediation. On the edge of the
Marelli area, in Via Crescenzago, if you love
industrial archaeology don’t miss the early
20th century Mariani Brickworks (49) – a
Hoffmann-type kiln for brick firing, required
for urban development. It is located inside
a green area which enhances its appealing
proportions: a low oval-plan structure, thick
sloping walls, a pitched roof and a high
central chimney.
After that you can carry on walking towards
Cascina Gatti (50), a small suburb that
partially maintains a charming rural village
look. Documents mention it as far back as
the 9th century: they called it “Sundro”, i.e.
land farmed by its owners and their servants.
The village was linked to its own bridge
called “Sunderasco”, with Roman origins,
which passed over the river Lambro until
1951, when it was destroyed by flooding.
Cascina Gatti is part of the Parco Media
Valle Lambro [p. 26].
Linked to the memory of Ercole Marelli is the
1909 Salvi Muller Warehouse (51), once
the venue of the well-known vocational
training school named after him, which
is a statement of the social responsibility
taken on by the best entrepreneurial class
of the last century. The building is today
a residence that overlooks Via Cardinal
Ferrari, making it easy to see and admire its
charming early 20th century façade, with
the large windows, decorative lintel and
characteristic roof profile.
The Galli Breda School (52) was created
strolling around Sesto
of the Monti Glassworks (53).
We’ll walk back to the centre stopping at
San Clemente Recreation Club (54), in Via
Volta. Once one of the most lively meeting
points in Sesto, it now houses a restaurant.
Moving on along Via F.lli Cairoli, you will
see the Civic Aqueduct (55), which dates
back to 1934 and originally contained the
pumping station and the water tower
control panel. The functional aim of the
building matches its remarkable formal style.
We’ll end our tour glancing at the Saint
Nicolao (56), the oldest building in Sesto
though almost a complete ruin today. It
was first mentioned in 1102. Unfortunately,
only a part of the ogive arcade of the 15thcentury monastery survives. Its Roman bricks
are almost certainly recycled.
The Salvi Muller
Warehouse façade.
Saint Nicolao by night.
The beauteous tower of
the Civic Aqueduct.
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
PHOTO: patrizia morandi
PHOTO: giorgio vonella
PHOTO: antonio grassi
for middle-class families, dedicated to
Mario Galli, a Sesto citizen and an aviator
who died in the Ethiopian campain. A
business vocational section dedicated
to Ernesto Breda was added in 1937. The
admirable rationalist style façade of the
building is at the junction between Via
Matteotti and Via Leonardo da Vinci. This
place unfortunately is filled with memories
of dreadful past events: deportations and
forced expatriations of Sesto citizens who
were involved in the Resistance. Today the
complex is a state school.
The Savoia College (53) was devoted
to educating the children of engineers
and technicians. It is located in Via F.lli
Bandiera, near the Rondò. It is currently a
restaurant. At the rear was the workshop
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Parks where there we
57 Parco Media Valle Lambro
58 Falck Hills
59 Bergamella Vegetable
Gardens
60 Parco Nord Milano
61 Cascina Centro Parco
62 Breda Flight Building
63 Breda Bunker
PHOTO: andrea colleoni
64 Monument to the Deporterd
Kite day in the Parco
Media Valle Lambro.
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If after visiting the city you are longing for a
breath of fresh air and green, here we are!
The Parco Media Valle Lambro (57)
spreads along the river Lambro for about 300
hectares, passing through the Municipalities
of Brugherio, Cologno and Sesto. It is a
young park, overlooking a territory modified
by an intrusive industrial history, now given
back to the city. Falck Hills (58) are a first
example of environmental recovery. The
area is fitted with benches in an arbor,
aromatic plants, a bio-diversity shaded
grove, a wooden tower, slides, a maze, a
skateboard rink and a climbing wall. The
history of this place is linked to the big
Sesto factories. Since the Forties, the 32
hectares, now occupied by hills were used
as a quarry, first and as a dumping place
for iron slag, then to scrap them, until the
hills were formed. In the Sixties they began
to dismantle the dump. The work went on
well into the Nineties, when the two 20
meter hills were reclaimed and planted. They
joined the PMVL in 2006. The southern hill is
a panoramic terrace on the Falck areas. From
the northern one the alpine chain can be
seen on a clear day.
Another interesting key point in the PMVL,
which can be reached from Via Livorno, are
the Bergamella Vegetable Gardens (59):
a social experiment that has been able to
turn a run-down suburb into a pleasant and
clean location. Here farmers and technicians
dismantled the old unauthorised individual
vegetable gardens to create new shared ones.
The PMVL aims at evolving a suburban park
into a great metropolitan one, northwards
connecting with Monza’s Royal Park, and
southwards with the Forlanini-Idroscalo Park
in Milan.
The Parco Nord Milano (60), founded in
1975, includes 630 hectares of wide territory
with 2,5 million users a year. It is a park
developed over a long period of time, where
re once factories
The Breda Bunker
during a guided tour.
Gardeners at work in
the Bergamella
Vegetable Gardens.
PHOTO: archivio comunale
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Tree-lined alley
in the Parco Nord
Milano.
PHOTO: cristina meneguzzo
rooms and the tour displays sound, voice
and images that recall the industrial growth,
the war period, and the later re-conquering
of the area.
Another remarkable site in the Park is
the Monument to the Deported (64),
a work by the architects Ludovico and
Alberico Belgioioso and by the Art Master
Giuseppe Lanzani. A staircase leads to the
porphyry panels displayed in a semi-circle,
with 460 engraved names of workers for
local factories who were arrested and
deported by the Nazis on a memorial stone
that stands in the centre. The basement
conserves the ashes from the deportation
camps of Gusen and Mauthausen. The
monument is an example of land-art
interacting its memories with nature.
PHOTO: parco nord milano
its beginnings were addressed to a wide
area owned by Breda, with the recovery of a
hill built up from steel slag. Today this large
green “lung” contains woods, lawns, stretches
of water, tree-lined alleys, urban vegetable
gardens, cycling and walking lanes, and
sport-fitted equipment paths.
The pivotal point for events is the Cascina
Centro Parco (61), with an entrance from
via Clerici, containing a visitor centre and a
library. Behind it the Breda Flight Building
(62), once owned by the Breda Aeronautic
Division, still survives. We suggest visiting
the Breda Bunker (63), built during the
Second World War to protect workers from
the Allies’ bombardments, and survived
right up to the productive dismantlement
of the units. The set-up is organized in four
Parco Media Valle Lambro, entrance from Via Cadore and Via Pisa.
Info: tel. +39 022496826, pmvl@sestosg.net, www.pmvl.it
Parco Nord Milano, Via Clerici 150, tel. +39 02241016.1,
www.parconord.milano.it
Audioguides about the history
and the nature of Parco Nord,
both on streaming and for download.
Breda Bunker, for guided tours contact: Ecomuseo Urbano
Metropolitano Milano Nord, Via Cesari 17, Milano Niguarda,
ecomuseo@eumm-nord.it, www.eumm-nord.it
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Itineraries
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- Tour organized by Sesto San Giovanni
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- Guided tours to the Archivio Giovanni
Sacchi upon reservation
On foot
Time flies and we propose you a short
and focused exploration in the former
Breda area. If you walk past the Porta
Breda, you will find yourself in an
open-air museum with the majestic
Carroponte over your heads, the 830
Breda Locomotive and a Cart with
Falck Ingot Moulds. The Spazio MIL
awaits you with a huge Breda Trip
Hammer inside and the Archivio
Giovanni Sacchi, the workshop of a
great model maker from Sesto.
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- Autonomous tour
- Tour organized by Sesto San Giovanni
per l’UNESCO
- Guided tours upon reservation
By car / bike
Product and brand communication,
industrial design, creative and
innovative design. And more: art, new
technologies, manual skills, genius. Are
you interested in these themes and are
you chasing beautiful items? There are
three places in Sesto where you can
stop over to feast your eyes: Galleria
Campari, MAGE and Archivio
Giovanni Sacchi. It’s a pity if you miss
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Viale Italia is filled with history: on both
sides former Falck steelworks buildings
and endless factory walls covered in
graffiti follow one another… straight
on until the Falck Village, fitted into
the former plants. Along the steel
road, keeping outside the brownfield
sites, we propose a parade lap around
the remarkable buildings of the
former Falck Vittoria, Unione and
Concordia, until reaching the core of
the Villaggio Falck.
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A tour which weaves together
industrial archaeology, evolution, and
sociality. We suggest this every now
and then with a large collective guided
tour, either riding or walking, crossing
the Parco Media Valle Lambro
and the brownfields, which can be
accessed only with permission from
the property. The meeting point is
MAGE, with stop-overs in the former
Concordia Area, the Falck Hills, and
a final stop at the Villaggio Falck.
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- Autonomous tour
- Tour organized by Sesto San Giovanni
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By car / bike
The great factories of Sesto have
shaped everyday life, from work to
housing. The city is scattered with
residential dwellings risen on demand
of the urgent necessities of workers
and turned into a model of social life.
We will visit some of them: the Houses
for Breda Workers, the Villaggio
Diaz, the VAO (old workers’ hostel)
and the Villaggio Falck with its points
of interests.
Info point
Spazio MIL
Via Granelli 1
tel. +39 022496431
tel. +39 0236682271
info@spaziomil.org
www.spaziomil.org
www.spaziomil.it
from Tuesday to Friday 10-18
Biblioteca Centrale
Via Dante 6
tel. +39 0236574345 -42-24
biblioteca.sestocentrale@csbno.net
Monday 15-19, Saturday 9.30-18,
from Tuesday to Friday 9.30-19
Archivio Giovanni Sacchi
Via Granelli 1
tel. +39 0236682271
info@archiviosacchi.it
www.archiviosacchi.it
www.spaziomil.org
from Tuesday to Friday 10-18
Informagiovani
Via Marconi 8
tel. +39 0236518954
informagiovani@sestosg.net
from Monday to Wednesday
14.30-18.30,
Thursday 9.30-12.30
Sestoproloco
Via Don Minzoni 7
tel. +39 022440100
sestoproloco@fastwebnet.it
www.prolocosestosg.net
from Monday to Saturday 9-12
URP – Municipal Office for
Public Affairs
Via Puricelli Guerra 24
tel. +39 022496804-805-824
toll free from Italy 800304040
urp@sestosg.net
from Monday to Friday 9-12.30,
Tuesday and Thursday 14.30-17
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Useful Information
Main sports facilities
Stadio Breda
soccer matches
Via XX Settembre 162
tel. +39 0236521035
www.acprosesto.it
Palasesto
ice-skating, performances
Piazza 1° maggio
tel. +39 0226229988
www.palasesto.com
Centro sportivo Dordoni
track and field, weight room
Via Bixio
tel. +39 0224300283
Centro sportivo
Falck tennis
tennis, five-a-side football, bocce
Via Cantore 105
tel. +39 0222474027
Centro sportivo
Boccaccio - Pertini
soccer, five-a-side football, yoga
Via Boccaccio 285
tel. +39 0284101864
Public swimming-pools
De Gregorio
Via Saint Denis 101
tel. +39 022481208
Olimpia
Via Marzabotto 189
tel. +39 022423057
Cinemas
Cinema Rondinella
Viale Matteotti 425
tel. +39 0222478183
info@cinemarondinella.it
www.cinemarondinella.it
Skyline Multiplex
Via Milanese c/o
Centro Commerciale Sarca
tel. +39 0224860547
www.skylinemultiplex.it
Discover Sesto on
Sestopedia
Download the apps!
openSesto
Jeco Guides - Ecomuseo Urbano
Metropolitano Milano Nord
Jeco Guides Città delle fabbriche
How to reach Sesto
Transports
You can easily reach Sesto San Giovanni by car with
• A4 Motorway • Northern bypass (Tangenziale Nord)
Sesto is connected to Milan by
underground
• M1 red line (Sesto Marelli, Sesto Rondò, Sesto FS)
• M5 purple line (Bignami)
suburban railways
• S7 Lecco - Molteno - Milano Porta Garibaldi
• S8 Lecco - Carnate - Milano Porta Garibaldi
• S9 Saronno - Seregno - Milano Greco - Albairate
• S11 Chiasso - Como - Milano Porta Garibaldi
M1 underground line reaches the centre of Milan (Duomo), Lotto
Fieramilanocity, the Fieramilano fairground and the EXPO area (Rho Fiera).
M5 underground line reaches Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station
(Garibaldi FS), Lotto Fieramilanocity and San Siro Stadium.
Sesto is connected to Milano Malpensa Airport by
• a shuttle from Piazza I Maggio
• a shuttle and suburban railways from Cadorna FN Triennale (M1 red line)
• a shuttle from Centrale FS (M2 green line)
Sesto is connected to Milano Linate Airport by
• bus n° 73 and X73 Express from San Babila (M1 red line)
• a shuttle from Piazza I Maggio
• S9 as far as Forlanini, then S5 or S6
Sesto is connected to Orio al Serio Airport by
• Autostradale bus service from Milano Centrale (M2 green line)
Railway station
Piazza I Maggio
www.trenitalia.com
Trenord
suburban railways
www.trenord.it
ATM
urban and interurban lines,
suburban railway lines
www.atm.it
Bicistazione
parking and repairs for bikes
Piazza I Maggio
tel. +39 3339828882
Taxi
M1 Sesto Marelli, M1 Sesto Rondò,
M1 Sesto 1° Maggio FS
tel. +39 02244888
GuidaMI Carsharing
tel. +39 0248607607
www.atm.it/it/GuidaMi
parking
M1 Sesto Marelli, M1 Sesto Rondò,
M1 Sesto 1° Maggio FS